Tracey Brown

Tracey Brown OBE is the director of Sense about Science, where she has turned the case for sound science and evidence into popular campaigns, including AllTrials, a global campaign for the reporting of all clinical trial outcomes.  

Tracey leads Sense about Science’s work on transparency of decisions, to ensure the public has access to the same evidence as decision-makers. This has included drafting the Principles for the Treatment of Independent Scientific Advice, and the Transparency of Evidence framework, now internationally emulated.

In 2022 she led the What Counts? inquiry, and a national survey of the public’s experience of policy information during the pandemic, calling for all policy announcements to meet an evidence transparency standard.

Tracey regularly writes as a leading voice on the need for transparency in AI algorithms and evidence used by governments in policy, for major publications such as The Times and Times Higher Education.

Tracey is honorary Professor, Science, Technology and Engineering in Public Policy at UCL.